Anatomia sambuci, or, The anatomy of the elder cutting out of it plain, approved, and specific remedies for most and chiefest maladies : confirmed and cleared by reason, experience, and history / collected in Latine by Dr. Martin Blochwich ...

II. Of Worms.

THe Chrystaline Salt of the Elder preserveth and freeth from worms: It robs them of their nou∣rishment, kills them, and purgeth them out. The dose is, from half a scruple to half a drach or two scrup.

For those of riper years, which are troubled with worms, you are to pre∣pare in the Spring-time a dish made of Elder-buds, delivered from their bitter naucious taste, by the effusion of boyling water, with oyl, salt, and vinegar, which is to be used as a sallet before supper: For the oyl closeth the breathing places of the worms,

and maketh the belly slippery: Salt and vinegar cleanse, cut, and kill the worms. The Elder-buds do loosen the belly, purge the worms and thrust forth their fuel. That this sallet may be more pleasant, you may add some tender leaves of sorrel, which likewise resist worms. At other times the powder of the buds taken in the mor∣ning for a few days, a scruple at once in broth, is commendable.

Give to more delicate persons fre∣quently a spoonful of the syrup of the juice of the buds; with which mix half a scruple of prepared Hearts-horn. Some press out the juice of the recent leaves, and mix it with honey, or honey-roset, and give it sometimes before other meat, and by this means kill and purge out worms.

Where the stomach and intestines are furred and filled with a greater quantity of tenacious putrid pituit mucilage; give twice or thrice the Polichrestick powder of the buds in their syrup.